First Round at Permata Sentul Golf Club

Hail the D.O.G.S.!!!!!

So to the next thrilling instalment of the D.O.G.S, 2025 season, as we return to an old favourite, Permata Sentul, with its rather unique layout. It's been a couple of years and not much seems to have changed. The course is in great condition with greens that are consistent and true - and much friendlier pin positions to those we encountered at Rainbow! There are a few new faces in the Eagle Restaurant apart from the band going round the tables trying to make us relax before the round - not sure that worked!

A total of 35 players made the trip which included a couple of faces we haven't seen for a while - welcome back Remon Moerman and Andrea Saccarello.

The weather forecast - if you ever believe such things here - suggested we might have a shower or two later in the round and we were not disappointed - rumour has it the dry season is fast approaching!!. However, we got off on time with a semi shotgun off the back nine and more than half the field managed to finish their round before getting too wet or too dark!

Well the weather didn't put off Chris Barnett - mister New Balance himself - who was very much in balance on the 6th hole to record his first ever Hole in One!

Big congrats Chris and thanks for the several pitchers of beer he spread around to help us all join in his celebration.

So, to the rest of the golf: A reasonable spread of winner this week with Jude and Dean taking the Nearest to the Pin honours - but not on Chris's hole 6, of course. Shinta and Mark Blake hit the Longest Drives - not so easy to keep things on the fairways on this course and Jude and Axel managed the Drive & Pitch honours on couple of fairly long holes.

No surprises to see Richard Mau getting his flat stick working to earn this week's Putting champion. Now with some of the more traditional winners of the Booby and most Exercise Trophies not finishing their rounds it opened up the unlucky winner to Tony Wood and our very own Kevin Dobson to take those home this week. They can feel perhaps a bit hard done by given their scores were well short of the scores we usually see for these honours - but it is what it is!

Mark Blake with his low handicap managed to hold it all together and took the Low Gross prize this week with Richard Mau taking the Runner Up slot with a fairly low points tally. Yet again Agnes has put her marker down for this eclectic series by winning the first Little Dog - she's determine to threaten again for the Blue jacket - we shall see!!

Congratulations to all of this week's winners.

Far too early to say anything about the Eclectic leaderboard at this stage as we still have a number of players to finish all 18 holes and it's only the first week anyway - but you can see the full results can be found on the leaderboard.

Let's remind everyone again - if you don't finish a round for whatever reason you should leave your score blank on myGolf2u and don't try and submit the scores. myGolf2u is a live scoring app so the scores you have already submitted are recorded in the system as you go. You will be released from the game in the app once the round is finalized.

May we also request that you let Rod or JB know you playing partner preferences as soon in the week as you can and preferably not late on a Friday - we're entitled to a relaxing Friday evening too!!! - thanks.

So, get ready for next week and be sure to register early.

• Where: Permata Sentul Golf Club

• When: Saturday July 12, 2025

• Tee Off: 12:30

• Green Fee: 1,200,000 IDR includes sharing cart and caddie fee.

To register:

• Via our website.

• Sign up in myGolf2u 

See you all on the course.

Rod & jb

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